Inferno Wings takes flight in Cheney

CHENEY – What do you do when you are in-between quarters in school and not getting many hours at work?

Start a business, of course.

That was Cheney resident Myrinn Kern’s answer to such a dilemma. The third-year Eastern Washington University student who is not attending right now was not getting many hours as a line cook at Bene’s Restaurant due to the pandemic.

Needing some revenue, Kern took a look around at the dining options in the city — especially for college students — and hit upon an idea: what about chicken wings and garlic bread?

“Because who doesn’t like chicken wings and garlic bread?” Kern asked.

The Spokane Valley native and 2018 Cheney High School graduate said he saw other area eateries offering wings and bread, but nobody who was specializing in it. So, he worked with Bene’s co-owner Derek Baziotis to come up with a business plan and thus Inferno Wings was born.

Inferno Wings is a “ghost restaurant” in that it is run out of Bene’s where Kern does the cooking, but separate, does not offer sit-down dining but rather call-in/takeout options as well as delivery through Baziotis’s other business Eagle Bites — which Kern’s sister Marisity is also a partner in.

Inferno Wings offers three types of wings — boneless, original Buffalo bone-in and chicken tenders. There are five types of Buffalo-based sauce flavors: Freshman (mild), Sophomore (medium), Junior (hot) and Senior (extra hot).

“And then we have our Inferno Sauce, which is our extra, extra hot sauce,” Myrinn Kern said.

Meals begin with a single that features six boneless or bone-in wings and one garlic stick, and double in size from there to the party pack which has 48 wings and eight garlic sticks. Chicken tender meals are half the amount of chicken but the same number of garlic sticks.

Prices for pick up range from $8.75 for the single to $62 for the party pack, with a $4 service charge added for delivery by Eagle Bites. There’s also a Tester Pack for those wanting to dip their toe into the chicken wings pond that has four bone-in wings and one sauce included.

Other sauce flavors range from barbecue to spicy barbecue, mango-habanero, 11 peppers and garlic parmesan, with prices ranging from 75 cents to $1.50 extra.

Inferno Wings has been open about a month, Kern said, and so far the response as been good. The restaurant has a Facebook page and have been doing some promotion through Instagram and Eagle Bites website, all of which can be used to place an order.

“Everybody is going to love wings a in a college town,” Kern added.

Inferno Wings is open for orders from 4 – 9 p.m., but orders can be left in advance by leaving a message.

John McCallum can be reached at [email protected].